Flora of North America species comparison

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Calochortus plummerae

Plummer's mariposa-lily
Habit Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat fibrous-reticulate.
Stems

slender, usually branching, 3–6 dm.
Leaves

basal withering;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–4 dm.
Inflorescences

2–6-flowered;

bracts resembling distal cauline leaves.
Flowers

erect;

perianth open, broadly campanulate;

sepals lanceolate, 3–5 cm, glabrous or with a few hairs at base, apex long-tapering;

petals pale pink to rose, drying purplish, broadly cuneate to obovate, 3–4 cm, glabrous distally or nearly so, rarely fringed, with conspicuous, long, yellow hairs in broad median band, margins dentate;

glands round, slightly depressed, ± glabrous, bordered by ring of dense, obscuring, orange hairs;

filaments 9–11 mm, ± equaling anthers;

anthers lanceolate-linear, apex acute to somewhat short-tipped.
Capsules

erect, linear, angled, 4–8 cm, apex acute.
Seeds

light beige.
2n

= 18.

Calochortus plummerae
Phenology Flowering late spring–mid summer.
Habitat Dry rocky slopes, often in brush, chaparral, pine forest
Elevation 0–1700 m (0–5600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Source FNA vol. 26, p. 140.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Calochortus
Sibling taxa
C. albus, C. amabilis, C. ambiguus, C. amoenus, C. apiculatus, C. argillosus, C. aureus, C. bruneaunis, C. catalinae, C. clavatus, C. coeruleus, C. concolor, C. coxii, C. dunnii, C. elegans, C. eurycarpus, C. excavatus, C. flexuosus, C. greenei, C. gunnisonii, C. howellii, C. indecorus, C. invenustus, C. kennedyi, C. leichtlinii, C. longebarbatus, C. luteus, C. lyallii, C. macrocarpus, C. minimus, C. monanthus, C. monophyllus, C. nitidus, C. nudus, C. nuttallii, C. obispoensis, C. palmeri, C. panamintensis, C. persistens, C. pulchellus, C. raichei, C. simulans, C. splendens, C. striatus, C. subalpinus, C. superbus, C. tiburonensis, C. tolmiei, C. umbellatus, C. umpquaensis, C. uniflorus, C. venustus, C. vestae, C. weedii, C. westonii
Name authority Greene: Pittonia 2: 70. (1890)
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